Bulletstorm Review And Discounts

Bulletstorm Review And Discounts

Bulletstorm is a futuristic first-person shooter developed by People Can Fly and Epic Games. This video game is one of those things where you'll either dig it or you won't. Unrepentantly over the top, the game shares a common spirit with movies like Kill Bill or Shoot 'Em Up. It revels in gratuitous everything, just for the sake of being excessive in and of itself.

Most of the ridiculousness inherent in Bulletstorm stems from the game's story and much reported on "skillshot" based combat system. The script itself is your typical sci-fi fare, but the manner in which the character dialogue is written really makes it stand out. Mostly because it's immature to the point of being infantile and heavily laced with puerile profanity- but in a good way. Also, it's not the amount of profanity that's staggering, it's the sheer variety of it. It's almost like they rounded up a bunch of high school freshman, locked them into a room all night with the assignment to come up with as many vulgar phrases as possible, without repeating themselves. Stuff like , , and . You get the idea.

As far as the combat goes, it's not that it's excessively gory compared to other first-person shooters, it's more the manner in which the violence is executed. A short way into the game you gain a whip-like weapon called a "leash." This weapon allows you to pull enemies towards Hunt (Bulletstorm's main character), and interact with your surroundings in various ways to activate traps, etc. Additionally, Hunt can also slide into and kick away enemies. Throw in a variety of weapons, and there are several nasty ways in which baddies can be taken down. Some of the more, shall we say, creative combinations, are awarded points and called "skillshots." While it may not sound over the top on the face of it, when you spend half an hour using the leash to pull an enemy toward you just so you can kick him away, fire your sniper rifle and steer the bullet all Wanted style into the guy's genitals, just to unlock a skillshot called "nutcracker," then you may see what I mean.